amasa w



( No Model.)

. Ac W. BAILEY. POCKET SUPPORT FOR POOLAND BILLIARD TABLES.

No; 244,368. I Patented Ju1y,19, 1881.

d; l V e" 6! ell u, mm mun n m. Wnhinmon. 0,1:

UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

AMASA W. BAILEY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

POCKET-SUPPORT FOR POQL AND BILLIARD'TABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,368, dated July 19, 1881.

Application filed February 16, 1581. (No model.)

. To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, AMASA W. BAILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston,in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Supports for P001 and Billiard Tables; and I do hereby declare that the same are fully described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in pocket-supports for pool and billiard tables, and it is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, on which- Figure 1 represents a plan view of the pocket-support as secured in place on a pool or billiard table. Fig. 2 represents a cross-section on the line A B, shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 represents a cross-section on the line 0 D, also shown in Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

The pocket-support is represented in Fig. 1 as used for a corner pocket on apool or billiard table; but itis equally useful for side pockets.

at a represent the cushion-rails, b b the clastic cushions, and c the horizontal stone slab, of a pool or billiard table, as usual.

The pocket-support is composed of a central core, d, preferably made of cast or wrought metal, around which is molded the rubber e or other suitable elastic material, provided with a downward-projecting lip or flange, c, to which the pocket is securedin the usual manner, a number of perforations, 6, being made through the flange e to hang the pocket on. For the purpose of preventing said flange e from being torn, and to impart to it sufficient strength,

I interpose between the central core, d, and the molded elastic envelope 0 the canvas or suitable fibrous or textile materialf, which, after passing round the core (1, projects downward, as shown at f, within the flange e, which is molded around it. The core dis provided with downwardly-projecting screw-threaded projections d d, into which the ends of the screwbolts 9 g are screwed to secure the pocket-support in place on the cushion-rail, as usual.

Heretofore pocket-supports have been made of metal covered by a piece of leather. The latter, when after a short usage it gets hard and dry, is "ery liable to be cut through when struck by the billiard-balls, by which the edge of the metal core is exposed in such a manner as to make the balls liable to injury, and cuts by coming in direct contact with such exposed core on the pocket-support.

By molding the elastic material 0 all round the central core, d, no damage will happen to the billiard-balls in striking the corners E E, as such parts are equally well protected by the molded elastic covering 0. the protector are let into the top of the cushion-rail a, and secured by the screw-bolts g 9, before mentioned.

What I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim, is+

The herein-described pocket-support for pool and billiard tables, consisting of the central core, d, the canvas f, and the molded rubber or other elastic material e, combined and arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AMASA W. BAILEY.

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, JOSEPH Gr. BAILEY.

The ends of 6 

